GateHouse News Service Regional Budget (11/30/07)

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Nov 29, 2007 at 12:01 AMNov 29, 2007 at 6:41 AM

GateHouse News Service Regional Budget (11/30/07)

GateHouse News Service Regional Budget (11/30/07)
Here are the top Illinois stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at www.gatehousenewsservice.com
*Please check this Web site in the evening for changes to story lineup, including breaking news.
Contacts:
Regional Editor Jonie Larson, (217) 816-3343, jlarson@gatehousemedia.com
National Editor Jean Hodges, (630) 348-3350, jhodges@gatehousemedia.com
News
STATE BRIEFS: A collection of briefs from GateHouse newspapers across the state. Posted by 6 p.m. Illinois and Illinois News.
HENRY HYDE DIES: http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/x118354698
TOLLWAY BUDGET: 2008 tollway budget includes $1.1 billion for improvements. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/x540386651
SPECIAL SESSION: Today's special legislative session, called by the governor, continues although the House of Representatives already has quit for the day without voting on anything. Some legislative leaders are meeting with governor. Story as developments warrant. Finke.
GREEN TOMB: Lincoln's Tomb will get a new heating system that relies on geothermal technology and is much more energy and cost efficient, governor's office says. Colindres
GREEN CHRISTMAS: Good intentions for the environment can go out the window in the holidays. The Nature Conservancy suggests you pick just one thing to make a difference. BIBO, Peoria / Evening / Illinois and Ill. News
MCCARRON TRIAL DATE: Karen McCarron's attorney is again asking for a postponement of her murder trial, despite the judge's decision earlier this month to deny one. He's treading on thin ice with the judge as it is, after the judge called the postponements stall tactics by the defense. SAMPIER. Peoria / Evening / Illinois and Ill. News
SLOW STATE PAYMENTS: Substance-abuse treatment providers throughout the state, including Triangle Center in Springfield, are suffering because of some of the slowest payments from state government in years. They say it's unfair for the governor to take $400 million from the current budget to expand health care while making current health-care providers like them wait so long. They also criticize the governor for using his amendatory veto this summer to ax a 3 percent cost-of-living increase for drug-treatment centers and using the money to put parts of Illinois Covered in place. "It's absurd," the director of one advocacy group said. Olsen, Springfield / Evening / Illinois and Ill. News
Sports
NOTE: MIKE NADEL is off today.
MOVING UP: Illinois junior guard Calvin Brock is providing a spark for the Illinois basketball team on an offense that's been inconsistent, he has been a pleasant suprise. SUPINIE. Champaign. Illinois sports and Big Ten. Moving this evening.
BEARS: Odds and ends from Bears camp. REED, Rockford. Afternoon / Bears and Illinois Sports
QUICKSHOTS column. REED, Rockford. Afternoon / Bears and Illinois Sports